Example sentences of "[n mass] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands .
2 The demand for more aircraft has created a sort of aero-futures market .
3 A revolutionary type of microlight aircraft has won a design council award .
4 The R.A.F. suspected that the aircraft had hit a hillside .
5 The next morning we found the aircraft had blown a gasket .
6 Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal .
7 Numerous data have suggested a role of arachidonic acid metabolite in the pathophysiology of various gastrointestinal disorders .
8 In line with various studies of jejunal tissue , our data have shown a predominance of gd + TCR intraepithelial lymphocytes within the expanded population of CD3 + T lymphoctyes distributed throughout surface and crypt epithelium of rectal mucosa .
9 Does my hon. Friend agree that the Islander aircraft have established a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of the skies , being virtually indestructible and operating in one of the most hostile environments in the world ?
10 ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers .
11 3M has launched a hazardous spill response kit for use with bench-top or floor spills .
12 To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces .
13 A monster pike measuring about 4ft and weighing over 30lb has had a £460 bounty put on its head after chomping its way through almost half the stock of waterfowl and fish in the boating lake at Alexandra Palace , North London .
14 She 's already invested so much that , and the offspring has got a self interest for getting as much as it can , so their self interest coincides .
15 I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake .
16 The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’
17 Normally , once these older folk have attended a course they are keen to participate in others .
18 More recently , northern folk have seized a greater share in responsibility for their own affairs ; they seek to take advantage of southern benefits , while at the same time maintaining their northern identity .
19 3M have gone a step further with the Privacy Plus Filter .
20 3M have gone a step further with the Privacy Plus Filter .
21 Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education .
22 5 Corps had made a consequential agreement with Yugoslav Fourth Army that " any formation wrongly surrendered will be returned to Tito " .
23 By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles , and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion .
24 In a case where parents and/or close next of kin have lost a child or close relative aged over 18 but without dependants the claim is limited to funeral expenses and property/luggage only .
25 As the British Resident Minister at AFHQ , Harold Macmillan , reported to the Foreign Office [ KP63 ] : " Thirteen Corps have received a message from General Loehr 's headquarters in Croatia brought by the hand of a German Foreign Office official .
26 Not all fish have adopted a life of speed .
27 Many fish have found a neat solution to this problem .
28 These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish .
29 The fish have bred a few times but each time the fry have died .
30 The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before .
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